Kamuo Ichihime Explained

Type:Shinto
Spouse:Susanoo
Children:Toshigami, Ukanomitama
Other Names:Ohtoshimioya-no-Mikoto
Cult Center:Shizuoka Sengen Shrine
Cult Centre:Shizuoka Sengen Shrine
Father:Ōyamatsumi

Kamuō Ichihime is a Japanese goddess.[1] [2] [3] She is a daughter of Ōyamatsumi.

She is referenced in the Kojiki as the second wife of Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and the aunt of his first wife Kushinadahime.[4] [5] [6] [7]

According to the Kojiki she and Susanoo are the parents of Ukanomitama,[8] [9] and Toshigami[10] [11] who is often identified with Inari.[12]

She is also known by the name Ohtoshimioya-no-Mikoto (大歳御祖命).[13] and worshipped at Shizuoka Sengen Shrine as a market goddess[14] [15]

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.today/20230325013742/https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=9164
  2. Web site: #18 Yuta Shrine | God of rich harvest also enshrined at Inari Shrine (Shrines of Japan) . .
  3. Web site: Kamu Ōichihime • . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史 . 2023-11-17 . . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史 . en-GB.
  4. Book: Fr?d?ric, L. . Japan Encyclopedia . Louis-Frédéric . Roth . K. . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . 2005 . 978-0-674-01753-5 . Harvard University Press reference library . 2020-11-21.
  5. Web site: My Shinto: Personal Descriptions of Japanese Religion and Culture . 2023-10-16 . www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp.
  6. Chamberlain (1882). Section XVIII.—The Eight-Forked Serpent.
  7. Book: Philippi . Donald L. . Kojiki . Princeton University Press . 2015 . 978-1400878000 . 89–90.
  8. Chamberlain (1882). Section XIX.—The Palace of Suga.
  9. Chamberlain (1882). Section XX.—The August Ancestors of the Deity-Master-of-the-Great-Land.
  10. Web site: ja:大年神 . Ōtoshi-no-kami . https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B9%B4%E7%A5%9E-450354 . live . https://archive.today/20230605234250/https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B9%B4%E7%A5%9E-450354 . 5 June 2023 . 5 May 2023 . . ja.
  11. Web site: ja:大年神 . Ōtoshi-no-kami . http://kojiki.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shinmei/otoshinokami/ . live . https://archive.today/20230605235208/http://kojiki.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shinmei/otoshinokami/ . 5 June 2023 . 5 May 2023 . . ja.
  12. "'My Own Inari': Personalization of the Deity in Inari Worship." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23, no. 1/2 (1996): 87-88
  13. Web site: 2021-12-26 . The Kuruma Otoshi-jinja Shrine Okinamai Dance . 2023-09-28 . The KANSAI Guide - The Origin of Japan, KANSAI . en.
  14. Nihon 100 no Jinja (19885). Nihon Kotsu Kosha, Tokyo
  15. Plutschow, Herbe. Matsuri: The Festivals of Japan. RoutledgeCurzon (1996)

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